I Respectfully Disagree: How to Have Difficult Conversations in a Divided World

Justin Jones-Fosu
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Start building bridges instead of barriers! This essential guide offers a simple 5-part framework that will help you have honest and enlightening conversations despite deep and fundamental disagreements.

Divisions are on the rise around the world, and 2024 may well be a peak year. We’re losing the ability to disagree without dehumanizing. There is a deep need for this practical and accessible guide to having challenging conversations in any situation, from the workplace to the classroom to the dinner table.

It’s not about saying the right words at the right time but something vastly deeper. In this book, you’ll discover the 5 pillars of respectfully disagreeing:
● Challenge your perspective
● Be the student
● Cultivate your curiosity
● Seek the gray
● Agree to respect

But this is not a weighty tome. Each chapter features a cartoon, and Justin Jones-Fosu tackles this serious subject with a playful and compassionate tone. For example, he writes “I have become more and more intentional in my desire to respectfully disagree with others (except those who think putting ketchup on eggs is wrong…there is no hope for respect there).”

With a wide range of examples and exercises throughout, this is a timely and reader-friendly handbook to disagreeing with someone’s ideology while passionately pursuing their humanity.

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習慣紅利 : 從工作管理到人生管理, 從微小改變到人生蛻變

艾爾文
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★暢銷作家艾爾文首本知識型自我成長作品！
★貫通人生五大領域，受用一生的人生改變法則！
★心理學X行為經濟學，你最需要的全方位習慣養成書！

艾爾文很早就認知到「習慣」對人生有重大影響，
於是他從各類科學研究著手，對習慣的鑽研已超過十年以上，
從探索理論到實作方法，他逐步累積一套系統性步驟，並將其應用在自己身上，
成為親身體會透過微小習慣的改變，走向人生蛻變的最佳實證。

從他學生時代考研究所的經驗，再到竹科工程師時期透過習慣累積帶得走的能力，
讓他即使離開穩定的高薪工作都能不慌亂、穩步朝著想要的人生方向前進，
先是出版了理財書籍，再跨領域成為心靈勵志書作家，更兩度成為年度十大暢銷作家。

習慣紅利帶來的效益，不只體現在艾爾文的生活與工作上，
在他想斜槓到不同工作領域時，更產生了莫大助益！
二〇一七年開始經營YouTube影音頻道的他，絲毫沒有影片製作、腳本企劃經驗，
更別說從沒碰過專業影音剪輯軟體，此外還要在鏡頭前侃侃而談。
但不出一個月，他的頻道已上軌道，九個月後訂閱人數更突破十萬，至今早超過七十萬大關。

為何他能在不同領域間轉換自如、看似毫不費力？其實就是「習慣紅利」的力量！
他早已養成系統化做事的習慣，知道用最少的時間完成最重要的事，
發展頻道的同時，寫作、出版與其他原本工作都按計畫進行著。

看似微小且無形，卻一直牽動著人生，這正是習慣帶來的影響。
就算一開始只是微小的付出，長久卻能帶來巨大的改變，正是累積習慣紅利的好處。
而這些微小習慣將會引導養成更多好習慣，最終成為改變人生的核心習慣；
無論是生活習慣、工作習慣、金錢習慣等領域都將出現明顯的成效。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Right Thing, Right Now: Good Values. Good Character. Good Deeds

Ryan Holiday
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INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

In his New York Times bestselling book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for a life of self-discipline. In this much-anticipated third installment in the Stoic Virtues series, he argues for the necessity of doing what’s right—even when it isn’t easy

For the ancients, everything worth pursuing in life flowed from a strong sense of justice—or one’s commitment to doing the right thing, no matter how difficult. In order to be courageous, wise, and self-disciplined, one must begin with justice. The influence of the modern world often tells us that acting justly is optional. Holiday argues that that’s simply untrue—and the fact that so few people today have the strength to stand by their convictions explains much about why we’re so unhappy.

In Right Thing, Right Now., Holiday draws on fascinating stories of historical figures such as Marcus Aurelius, Florence Nightingale, Jimmy Carter, Gandhi, and Frederick Douglass, whose examples of kindness, honesty, integrity, and loyalty we can emulate as pillars of upright living. Through the lives of these role models, listeners learn the transformational power of living by a moral code and, through the cautionary tales of unjust leaders, the consequences of an ill-formed conscience.

The Stoics never claimed that living justly was easy, only that it was necessary. And that the alternative—sacrificing our principles for something lesser—was considered only by cowards and fools. Right Thing, Right Now. is a powerful antidote to the moral failures of our modern age, and a manual for living virtuously.

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隱形澳門:被忽視的城市與文化

李展鵬
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認識澳門過去與未來的必讀專著！
從世界回望本土，以澳門思考台灣

於大航海時代站上世界舞台的澳門
從默默無名的小漁村，歷經華洋共治、葡國殖民到成為中國行政特區
加上港式文化的浸潤影響，形成混雜而異質的文化面貌
因之，閱讀澳門可以讓我們追溯世界的歷史與跨國的交流連繫
從澳門人的本土覺醒，亦能提供文化、傳統、認同、根源等觀念的省思與辯證

● 「兩岸三地」「中港台」──隱含在這些區域概稱當中的澳門，究竟為什麼一直以來都被「隱形」？
●除了葡式蛋塔的可口與大三巴的景觀，澳門還有什麼文化？
●這座人口約60萬的城市，每年迎接超過3000萬的旅客，對當地的社會與人民生活造成什麼影響或價值扭曲？
●相較於香港追求獨立與本土運動的方興未艾，比鄰的澳門相對顯得安於現狀，
究竟他們是怎麼看待自己的身分？新一代的澳門人是否也逐漸凝聚新的本土認同？
●澳門的賭場經驗，對台灣設立「博弈特區」能提供什麼樣的借鏡或警醒？

此書會從澳門長期不被看見的「隱形狀態」談起。作者身為土生澳門人，累積了過去十年對澳門的觀察與思考，全書分為四章。第一章「大三巴背後的故事」談歷史與文化，除了簡述澳門的特殊歷史以外，也從建築、城市結構、葡國菜，以及港澳的微妙關係去討論澳門的混雜文化；第二章「三千萬遊客的一夜情」談開放賭業市場之後的巨變，從二○一六年天鴿颱風曝露的問題、政府派錢的措施、旅遊業的過度發展、城市空間的變異，談到階級社會的浮現；第三章「遲來了數百年的初戀」談身份認同，討論「我愛澳門」這論述的出現，以及本土身份如何在建立在懷舊情緒及排外心態之上；第四章「自己的故事自己說」談本土創作，分析電影、繪畫及戲劇這三種作品如何反映了過去十多年澳門人對城市問題的思考、對本土身份的探索。

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The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets

Thomas R. Cech
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One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2024

Exploring the most transformative breakthroughs in biology since the discovery of the double helix, a Nobel Prize–winning scientist unveils the RNA age.

For over half a century, DNA has dominated science and the popular imagination as the “secret of life.” But over the last several decades, a quiet revolution has taken place. In a series of breathtaking discoveries, the biochemist Thomas R. Cech and a diverse cast of brilliant scientists have revealed that RNA―long overlooked as the passive servant of DNA―sits at the center of biology’s greatest mysteries: How did life begin? What makes us human? Why do we get sick and grow old? In The Catalyst, Cech finally brings together years of research to demonstrate that RNA is the true key to understanding life on Earth, from its very origins to our future in the twenty-first century.

A gripping journey of discovery, The Catalyst moves from the early experiments that first hinted at RNA’s spectacular powers, to Cech’s own paradigm-shifting finding that it can catalyze cellular reactions, to the cutting-edge biotechnologies poised to reshape our health. We learn how RNA―once thought merely to transmit DNA’s genetic instructions to the cell’s protein-making machinery―may have jump-started life itself, and how, at the same time, it can cut our individual lives short through viral diseases and cancer. We see how RNA is implicated in the aging process and explore the darker depths of the supposed fountain of youth, telomerase. And we catch a thrilling glimpse into how RNA-powered therapies―from CRISPR, the revolutionary tool that uses RNA to rewrite the code of life, to the groundbreaking mRNA vaccines that have saved millions during the pandemic, and more―may enable us to improve and even extend life beyond nature’s current limits.

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金牌法則:奧運金牌教練寫給所有人的逐夢指引 帶領你開創世界一流的人生 (The Golden Rules)

鮑伯.波曼(Bob Bowman), 查爾斯.巴特勒 (Charles Butler)
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在追求卓越的熱情下
你可以把自己的天賦和夢想帶到更遠大的地方

本書作者鮑伯．波曼是奧運金牌紀錄保持人麥可．菲爾普斯的游泳教練，早在菲爾普斯10歲時，他就發現這個從小不被看好的過動兒擁有強大的潛力。波曼把所有熱情全都奉獻給他的運動員，鼓勵選手為自己夢想的目標奮戰。因為對他來說：每個人都可以做得更好！每一個人！

無論你的人生目標是什麼，此刻是為了什麼而努力，也許你想獲得升遷、順利畢業、追求更好的生活，也許你想成為醫生、總裁、工程師、音樂家或最棒的父母，在拿起這本書的同時，恭喜你，你找對方向了！

波曼用畢生熱情培養出史上最偉大的奧運選手，這是他寫給各行各業人士關於如何追尋夢想、實現自我的一本書。波曼與我們分享，他是如何運用這10條法則，在每天的努力下，幫助自己與他人追求人生的各種里程碑：
●打造願景，化不可能為可能
●冒險才能面對更大的挑戰
●設定短期目標，創造長期成功
●建立團隊，少有冠軍是孤獨的
●點燃對夢想的熱情，並保持熱情
●當時機到來，帶著自信表現

在逐夢的過程中，你會看見追求卓越的價值與收穫。那是什麼呢？不是獎牌或紀錄，而是夢想所生的回憶。

(摘錄自eslite.com)